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In the Alex Rider books by Anthony Horowitz, what does SCORPIA stand for? see if you know the answer »

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Mr. Lies works for the International Order of Travel Agents. What is their official instrument?
Angels in America, Part Two Perestroika see if you know the answer »

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Who is the ghost that frequently visits Roy Cohn in the hospital, and was the one that told him of his disbarment?
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Which of the following authors helped craft the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 noir thriller, Shadow of a Doubt? see if you know the answer »

]]> <![CDATA[Thom added 'Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76467042 to: Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith (Paperback) by Martha N. Beck
bookshelves: 1000-keepers, america, mormons, own-hardcover
Tendentious in the extreme, tendentious and serving to bolster the author's high opinion of her intellect and its ability to psychoanalyze not just her trauma-filled life but that of her 91-year old father, World War II veterans everywhere and so on. She refers, a dozen times and more, to her Harvard education as if it gave her a crystal ball. Billed as a "Life Counselor" on the DJ--God help us all. ]]> <![CDATA[Thom added 'Kennedy's Brain: A Novel']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78745379 Kennedy's Brain: A Novel (Hardcover) by Henning Mankell
bookshelves: 1000-keepers, archaeology, crime-fiction, currently-reading, fiction, own-hardcover
]]> <![CDATA[Thom made a comment on the list Best Love Stories ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/550.Best_Love_Stories_ Thom made a comment on the list Best Love Stories :

Themis-Athena wrote: "Kody wrote: "The fact that Twilight is anywhere near Pride and Prejudice, and above Romeo and Juliet makes me want to cry and shame as humanity has fallen. "

I second that feeling.

Near "Pride an..."
Isabella Swan, American Girl: Wears rags most of the time, dresses up in blue, likes one particular vampire despite, survives hellish childbirth. Likes to ride rehabbed motorcycles with her werewolf friend Jacob. Clean, rough-n-ready gal. Her spunk reminds some readers of Sarah Palin (gaggh). Last line of Breaking Dawn was to be "Reader, I married him" but editors nixxed it.

---Stay strong, Tommy Tortoise ]]> <![CDATA[Thom made a comment on the list Big Fat Books Worth the Effort]]> http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3153.Big_Fat_Books_Worth_the_Effort Thom made a comment on the list Big Fat Books Worth the Effort:

G. wrote: "I can't believe I had to add The Golden Notebook!"

Sometimes I have trouble seeing things that are right in front of my nose. ]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Thom]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78420649 Thom's review of Couples
by John Updike

I vacationed a lot in Ipswich, sailed there, know it from Hawthorne, etc. The whole "North Shore" (of Massachusetts) holds magic for me, and this book just struck a chord with me when it came out. ]]>